Let's Eat Weed!

The idea of foraging for food in the wild has always been a fascinating idea for me! Free food and all that..If I can stomach garden snails, I would have a lot of meat to eat through out the year! But those slimy creatures are nasty!

But I found out that there is another wild thing that I can eat from my garden..WEED..onion! An edible Spring bulb plants. The whole plant is edible from the bulb, the leaves to the pretty white flowers. The plant has a hint of oniony smell plus a pungent fragrance that I can't put into words, maybe a bit too overpowering for my liking when they are raw. (Maybe that is why they are regarded as weed not vegetable!) It doesn't smell anything like spring onion, or young leek (as some people might suggest).

But since they are free food from my garden, I am happy to give them a try! Once cooked, they smell a lot less pungent, and very much like other complementary ingredients for a dish.

I mixed the finely chopped weed onion to marinated minced pork to make some burgers. And also experiment using the whole plant as the substitute for spring onion for the pork liver stir fry. I think they work well with ginger and meat! But I don't think I will eat them in any raw salad!

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My name is Loong, I am an architectural designer with a very strong passion and instinct to cook colourful and delicious food....

I started cooking when I was about 10 years old. Even now, I vividly remember my grandmother showing me how to dry-fry black beans over the charcoal stove. As I stood beside her watching the beans hitting the wok, their sound changed from a dull rustling to a lively high "tinging" pitch. A light dry smell, like burnt coffee, filled the kitchen.

My aim is to cook appetising, yet humble food that satisfies not only your taste buds and your stomachs, but also feast your eyes and imagination. I hope to use this blog to show how simple, affordable ingredients can be easily transformed into delicious and beautiful dishes for your daily meals.